The situation in the morning: Who is responsible for the hunger?

Your dance area, my dance area

Today might look suspiciously familiar to yesterday's readers: the

are still meeting on the

.

The

are still sitting together in

.

After

will now also take a position

on a possible

.

And

the

, for example the traffic light coalition's plans to reduce the energy tax on fuel.

But it really is a new day, I promise, as you can see from the fact that the

are also meeting today , led by

, and coincidentally in his hometown of Stuttgart!

Özdemir's group will deal with the global

crisis as a result of the Ukraine war, as will

's .

The Foreign Minister recently announced in an interview with SPIEGEL: "One of the priorities of our G7 presidency is to forge an alliance against this food crisis."

Both are somehow responsible for this topic, although a minister for

might seem a bit more responsible, but a foreign minister is the one with the radiance.

You would be happy to read the SMS that the two Green Ministers may have written to each other.

Perhaps

(SPD) also opened a three-way chat?

After all, their entire ministry is there to fight global hunger.

By all accounts, Baerbock's SPIEGEL announcement was not well received in Schulze's house.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz

will have decided, in his own level-headed way, that he would rather not become a party to the war on this issue of competence.

Instead, he will report today to the

on the status of German

drug production plant

.

These are shaky days for the chemical company led by Werner Baumann: A

would have catastrophic consequences for the chemical industry, as several top managers warned in March in a letter to Scholz and Economics Minister Robert Habeck.

Yesterday's decree by Russian autocrat

, which imposed a boycott on around 30 European gas companies, is likely to dampen Bayer's joy at the topping-out ceremony.

One would hope that Chancellor Scholz's speech would be extra prudent.

• Foreign Minister Baerbock and the war: "There are moments when I quarrel too" 

You can find more news and background information on the war in Ukraine here:

• That happened at night:

  According to the Ukrainian army, it hit a Russian warship near Snake Island.

  President Zelenskyj laments 101 destroyed hospitals.

  And: Kiev's announcement to Germany.

  The overview.

• What Putin actually wants to achieve with his gas supply freezes:

  The Kremlin is boycotting German gas companies.

  This fuels fears of a total failure.

  But Russia is probably pursuing a different plan – at least for the time being. 

• Why is the Russian advance in Donbass faltering?:

  Although Russia is making small progress in its offensive in the east, it is also losing areas around Kharkiv and Cherson, where the Ukrainians are currently reporting successes.

  This is also due to their drone tactics. 

• The Kremlin calls Finland's imminent NATO membership "definitely" a threat:

  Kremlin spokesman Peskov has criticized the Finnish government's statement in favor of NATO membership.

  The step is a threat to Russia and will not make Europe more stable.

If you can have money, you can also have a family?

Nothing helps: At this point it is necessary to point out that there is another

conference today, namely that of the

.

The new

, is also there, and at least she doesn't have to worry about other cabinet members interfering with her department.

Except perhaps for Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht, who with her vacation trip in the government helicopter has sparked her very own debate on family policy.

Paus, successor to the retired Greens Anne Spiegel, has now given our SPIEGEL her first major interview.

In it, she makes it clear how she wants the success of her tenure to be measured: by a

“that also deserves the name”.

In this project, family policy benefits such as child benefit or Hartz IV funds are to be bundled into a guaranteed amount, combined with an income-related additional amount.

It is a mammoth project, the details of which are still unclear.

In her previous life as a

, Paus dealt with exactly this project: "I'm an architect of basic child security," said the Green Party, and calls for the benefits for children to be increased as part of the reform.

The fact that the traffic light government is currently diverting the tax billions into less family-friendly projects doesn't bother them: they dare "not predict," says Paus, "whether we can comply with the debt brake next year."

Incidentally, there is another topic on the agenda in the Bundestag today that has to do with family planning: the so-called

.

The traffic light wants to abolish the provision in the penal code, the Union faction is against it.

• New Family Minister Lisa Paus: "A coalition is not a marriage" 

Nancy Faeser brings bad news

It's bad news week.

For example, after

had to present the sad records in the statistics on political crime on Tuesday, she is now presenting the equally unpleasant picture of the situation of right-

authorities.

Next to her will be Thomas Haldenwang, President of the

, which prepared the report.

Wolf Wiedmann-Schmidt and Ansgar Siemens from our editorial team were able to evaluate the 140-page document in advance, which includes all cases known to the authority from the beginning of July 2018 to the end of June 2021.

The Office for the Protection of the Constitution counted a total of over

federal and state security agencies.

In another 533 test cases, the suspicion was not substantiated.

The examples cited in the report have it all: shouts of »Sieg Heil!« or showing the Hitler salute, getting involved in anti-Semitic chat groups, racist insults and contacts with right-wing extremist parties.

Officials have already been fired in 60 cases, or are about to be fired.

This report has only been around for a short time, ex-Interior Minister Horst Seehofer presented it for the first time in 2020. It is one of those traditions that one wishes would not grow old.

• Report by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution: More than 300 right-wing extremists and »Reich citizens« in German security authorities 

Winner of the day...

... is

, i.e. the man who is supposed to

the Berlin administration qua official - a project that is designed to last five years.

But now Kleindiek has achieved a small but important victory.

Strictly speaking, it's not celebrated until Monday, so we're a bit early, but Kleindiek's topic also has something to do with the future: On Monday ,

, the first of twelve districts

.

Kleindiek, an SPD man, has decades of public service behind him, was a state councilor in Hamburg, state secretary in the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs and most recently a partner in a large management consultancy.

His return to the Berlin Senate administration shows that he has considerable endurance, both professionally and financially.

One day in the distant future, the goal of the Berlin government is “administration without media discontinuity”.

We'll just leave this as long as there is SPIEGEL.de or the Internet, after that the topic will come up for resubmission.

The latest news from the night

• Christian student stoned and burned in Nigeria:

  An entry on WhatsApp was interpreted as a denigration of the prophet Mohammed: In Nigeria, a mob brutally murdered a young woman.

  The crime was filmed and the first arrests were made.

• Portuguese police shoot hostage-takers:

  A hostage and a police officer were injured: the police shot a hostage-taker near the Portuguese capital of Lisbon.

  According to media reports, the man was a tourist from Germany.

• North Korea reports the first corona deaths – and around 350,000 people infected with an “unknown fever”:

  The fever has “explosively spread across the country”: North Korea officially announces the first fatality from Covid.

  It is unclear how many of the sick were tested for the virus.

The SPIEGEL + recommendations for today

• "A coalition is not a marriage":

  Lisa Paus is the new Minister for Family Affairs after Anne Spiegel's resignation.

  Here she talks about a difficult house, problems with the FDP and the project against which she wants to be measured. 

• »Many teachers work on solutions behind closed doors«:

  Felicitas Thiel and Olaf Köller analyze that too much money is wasted in Germany's schools.

  In an interview, they explain where the biggest problems lurk - and which three points make up good teaching. 

• Why I can't just go back to normality:

  Alone in a shared room instead of full university life: During the corona pandemic I got used to life in solitude.

  Now I have to get the “caveman” label put on me.

  That's not fair. 

• Stop the unicornization of children's rooms!:

  It has a horn, big eyes and it's everywhere: unicorns on shirts, books and hair clips.

  Where does it come from?

  And more importantly: will it go away? 

I wish you a good start into the day.

Yours, Melanie Amann